MinnEcon Blog

Big brands move into growing gluten-free market
In 2004, the gluten-free market was worth $580 million. By 2012, it's expected to be worth $2.6 billion.
What's the Great Recession done to your career? Tell us. Keep it short.
Inventory and foreclosures climbing. List prices sliding. Not good signs for the Twin Cities housing market.
Is your employer doing anything to help avoid worker burnout?
If you can't sell your own house to buy another and if lenders won't let you count income from renting it, then what do you do? What does the market do?
Poll data gives weight to the stories you've told us in the Great Recession.
Top three best recession songs. The '80s rocked!
Home building helped catapult the U.S. out of the past seven recessions. Not this time.